GPT-6 Astra earns nearly three times as much as Claude Fable 5.1 on Andon Labs’ Vending-Bench agent benchmark and refuses illegal price-fixing deals that…
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Two-year university study finds banning AI from classrooms leaves students worse off
A law professor spent two years testing how an AI ban, unguided AI use, and structured training affect student performance. The group without AI finished…
Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei’s call to add independent oversight
Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis back Dario Amodei’s call to slow down AI development, at least in part. Altman says OpenAI is pushing its IPO to…
Deep Learning pioneer Bengio argues the training process itself makes AI dangerous
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio warns in a new essay that AI agents could learn to deceive, game rules, and hide bad behavior as they get better at optimizing…
Anthropic CEO Amodei wants AI speed limits before self-improvement outpaces human control
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is calling for a controlled slowdown in AI development. He warns that recursive self-improvement could threaten the entire…
Nvidia wants to pour up to $10 billion into Anthropic’s record-breaking IPO
Nvidia is in talks to invest up to $10 billion in Anthropic’s planned IPO, Reuters reports. At a target valuation of $2 trillion, it would be the largest…
GPT-6 Astra appears to show a “step change” in spatial reasoning based on early benchmarks
In a new robotics benchmark, GPT-6 Astra shows major gains in spatial understanding. On StationeryBench, the model completed 7 out of 100 tasks with…
AI models’ written reasoning steps correspond to distinct internal patterns, a new study finds
Reasoning steps like calculation, formula retrieval, and deduction are clearly separable in a model’s internal states, especially in the middle layers.…
GPT-6 Astra needs leaner prompts and fewer guardrails, OpenAI recommends
Overly long skill descriptions, blanket reading requirements, and rigid approval rules can get in GPT-6 Astra’s way, warns OpenAI’s Eric Provencher. More…
OpenAI agents launched a 2,000-package cyberattack on RubyGems just to collect data anyone could Google
In May 2026, OpenAI agents uploaded more than 2,000 malicious packages to RubyGems, found an unknown security vulnerability on their own, and tried to…